Why Mary Beth Cahill Hasn’t Been (and Won’t Be) Fired (Inside Scoop from DNC and Kerry Sources)

www.crushkerry.com ^ | 9/16/04 | www.crushkerry.com

[rod1]

That is why Teddy is going on the capaign trail for/with Kerry. He has to ne on site toensure his people stay in place and the clinonitas do not take over. Joe Bug-eye Michal mc, snake and forehead are not going to like that.

[N. Beaujon]

Frankenstein had better botox. ;)

[KsSunflower]

"“These new faces on the campaign are seen as proof Kerry has lost confidence in the management team who helped carry him through to the convention,” our source stated. “And folks are really resentful about that.”

The only reason Kerry is the nominee is because of Dean's screaming fit. Cahill didn't do squat. She(and John Kerry) just happened to be around at the right time. The fact that he was losing to Dean until the screaming incident...didn't speak well for her in the first place. However, he has nothing from his senate career, so I guess she didn't have anything but is 4 months in Vietnam to work with...

[Robert A Cook PE]

When Dean went into his screaming fit, Kerry was the ONLY democrat who had even been in the military in the race.

It only took two weeks of hearing a steady diet of "heroic Vietnam veteran" and "decorated Vietnam Hero" from the MSM that he picked up NH. And that was it: he had been crowned.

Nobody, but nobody ever looked at his real record.

The peacnik hippie-freaks remembered VVAW, the union goons did what they were told, and the news people repeated what they were told.

[okie01]

and why it is he can't get rid of the person whose management of the disastrous last 2 months can't be fired.

Mary Beth Cahill may be the world's worst campaign manager. Or she might be the best. Fact is, nobody really knows.

Because...the controlling fact is, she's got a godawful candidate -- a real pig to try and put lipstick on.

Consider how you'd go about selling John F. Kerry to America if you were Mary Beth Cahill.

That is, if you didn't decide to open your veins, instead...

[Cultural Jihad]

You have to go to Korea to find an image of Mary Beth Cahill . . .

And here's an AP story from Tuesday, November 11, 2003 when she was hired . . .

Kerry fires manager as presidential bid falters

Change called critical in new phase of effort

Tuesday, November 11, 2003
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — Democrat John Kerry shook up his foundering presidential campaign Monday, firing his campaign manager as the Massachusetts senator, once the party's establishment candidate, struggled to make up ground on front-runner Howard Dean.
Trailing Dean in the current measures of the race — fund raising, opinion polls, crucial endorsements — Kerry replaced campaign manager Jim Jordan with Mary Beth Cahill, chief of staff to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
      The move came less than three months before voters in Iowa participate in the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
      "There's a new phase of the campaign now, and I wanted to change the dynamic," Kerry said during an Iowa campaign stop in which he tried to focus on veterans' issues but was repeatedly pressed about the staff shake-up. "Jim Jordan is a terrific person and has done a great job to date. I wanted to move this campaign forward and that's what we're doing."
      The four-term senator entered the race with credentials that appealed to the Democratic elite — decorated Vietnam War veteran, party stalwart, wealthy spouse. But Kerry has been criticized for running his campaign too cautiously and for not doing much of the necessary nitty-gritty work, such as telephoning potential supporters and fine-tuning his message.
      Democratic strategists have blamed Kerry more than his campaign, saying he is known to be a candidate who doesn't take advice well or likes to split his staff into competing camps. Indeed, his presidential campaign is layered with high-priced advisers, some of whom have duplicative roles and are roughly divided into two factions: those based in Washington, where Kerry has been a senator for 18 years, and others from his home town of Boston.
      The departure of Jordan marks the second time in less than two months that a high-ranking official has left the Kerry camp. Communications director Chris Lehane resigned in September over differences in the direction of the campaign, and later signed on with rival Wesley Clark.
      Jordan's firing raised the specter of other departures.
      In a conference call Sunday night, Kerry enraged much of his staff by mispronouncing the name of a top staff member at least once, and could be heard eating as he broke the news of Jordan's firing, which he called a "one-day story." Stung by his attitude, several aides said they were considering quitting the campaign.
      Two senior campaign officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision to oust Jordan was made jointly by Kerry and his campaign chairman, former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen.
      Kerry approached fellow Massachusetts Sen. Kennedy on the Senate floor some time ago to discuss the possibility he might want to hire Cahill, according to Democratic sources. The two senators spoke again over the weekend, and Kerry contacted Cahill to talk to her about the change he envisioned.
      In a statement, Kerry called Cahill "an accomplished leader for Democrats and progressive causes." She has worked for EMILY'S List, a political action committee that helps pro-abortion rights Democratic women candidates, and for Bill Clinton and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525037096,00.html

(Cancer and dementia are said to be 'progressive' at times.)

[Mr. Silverback]

I knew Cahill was a big problem for them when I saw her on Fox with Brit Hume, telling him that the bunny suit photo was a dirty trick engineered by NASA, and telling him this with the sort of earnest belief that you'd expect from an orthopedist telling Evel Knievel that motorcycle jumping is bad for the bones. Any campaign manager with half a brain would have...

...laughed at the photos and said "Boy, did we screw up letting the cameras in there or what?"

...gone on the attack: "At least he's not on an aircraft carrier traipsing around in a flight suit, declaring 'mission accomplished' in a war we're still fighting in 15 months later!"

...pretended not to know what the big deal was, "Hey, look how it excentuates that handsome face of his. That Ter-Ray-Zuh has herself a mighty fine man."

...claimed it shows Kerry will do anything, even look silly on camera, if it advances the cause of the American people and proper oversight of the people's government.

...claimed it was a homage to Woody Allen meant to promote stem cell research.

... ...gone tongue-in-cheek and challenged the President to a debate format where both candidates have to wear bunny suits.

...ANYTHING but accuse NASA (of all people!) of being a highly-partisan attack arm of the Bush campaign. I mean, the woman is a twit or a raving paranoiac!

One thing that makes this crushkerry source a little more credible is a recent (last couple of days) Susan Estrich column where she complains about Kerry being so "unmanly" as to "blame the woman" for the state of his campaign. Kerry shouldn't be blaming Cahill--he's the one who committed treason, not Cahill--but Estrich's demand that she be immune from criticism is telling. She's doing what she can to protect Cahill so that Kerry (or Carville & Co.) won't give any serious thought to dumping her and slowing up the money supply.

And BTW, how unfeminist is it to say that a woman who's been working as a political professional for decades is immune from criticism because she's "just a girl?"

[Mr. Silverback]

When Dean went into his screaming fit, Kerry was the ONLY democrat who had even been in the military in the race.

Don't forget Wesley Clark.

Clark scared me (he almost started WWIII during the Kosovo operation) and he is a liberal, gun-grabbing twit, but consider this record:

Commanded NATO forces for about 3 years.

Former commander of 1st Cav. Restructured the division for rapid deployment and deployed to Kuwait 3 times. Commanded the National Training Center from 10/89 to 10/91, training many of the units that fought the Gulf War.

His 'Nam tour included command of an infantry company, and his Purple Heart and Silver Star were awarded when he was hit four times in his right side (shoulder, hand, hip and leg) by a VC sniper and still managed to coordinate his men in counterattacking and defeating the subsequent ambush. The wounds were so bad he was eventually sent back to the States to recuperate.

Medals: 3 Distinguished Service Medals, 1 Silver Star, 4 Legions of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Purple Heart, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, 2 Army Commendation Medals.

Now I sure wouldn't vote for this guy, but you can bet there wouldn't be a Wintersoldier website about him, or a group called 1st Infantry Division Veterans for Truth telling us about how Clark threw his medals back and held secret negotiations with the Viet Cong. The Dems stampeded right over this guy to pick a man who can be pegged as a Communist sympathizer and national security moron by his Senate record alone. But they didn't care to check that far, much less look into his record of treason. Tasty pick, boneheads.

[creepycrawly]

He can't fire her or else there will be headlines about a Kerry "shake-up".

[Mr. Silverback]

Because...the controlling fact is, she's got a godawful candidate -- a real pig to try and put lipstick on.

Absolutely agree. Karl Rove could have switched sides two months ago and Kerry would still be behind ten points in Wisconsin. He's simply flip-flopped too many times too visibly on Iraq, and that lack of integrity puts his domestic policy pronouncements in doubt. And that's with the folks who hadn't already ditched him because they heard the truth about his treasonous activities with VVAW.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I saw Clark getting pushed in (by the Clintons, of course) to chase Kerry only after Kerry had risen from the Dean-Kuchinck (sp) muck as the "fair-haired war hero).

Was he really getting mentioned as a serious candidate before then?

[freeperfromnj]

That is cool. How do you do that?

[Mr. Silverback]

He can't fire her or else there will be headlines about a Kerry "shake-up".

Creepy, what you've left unspoken is that he can't do it for the same reason the President wouldn't dump Cheney even if he didn't like him: It looks indecisive and desperate, and if there's one thing Kerry needs to avoid it's looking indecisive and desperate.

And now he's making speeches where he flip-flops fourteen times on Iraq (indecisive) and claims the draft will be back with us as soon as Bush wins the election (desperate). Oops! Maybe he ought to just go ahead and fire Cahill, it can't get any worse!

[Mr. Silverback]

Was he really getting mentioned as a serious candidate before then?

Your assessment is correct, I'm just saying that if the Dems were half as patriotic as they say they are, they would have lifted Clark onto their shoulders and ran to Boston to have the nomination early. Why? Because all they considered about Kerry were...

Military "hero" (Clark was way better on this, even without the Swiftee's disclosures)

Long service to nation (Clark was equal)

Liberal policies (Clark was a lib Michael Moore could like)

Not Howard Dean (Clark gets that prize too)

...and it can be argued that here is a guy who commanded NATO forces in a recent war and would therefore be perfect for criticizing Dubya on Iraq policy. But I think you were right, a certain segment of the Dems heard "1970s anti-war activist" and saw him going anti-Iraq war and swooned. Many of these folks still think of people like Wesley Clark as babykillers, so there was no way they were going to pull the lever for a Vietnam vet unless he also had major (and majorly radical) war protestor cred.

[spodefly]

Kerry has an excellent team. There is no reason for him to fire anyone. In fact, Lockhart, Carville, Jamie Rubin, and McCauliffe should take a much more active and vocal role in his campaign to support Cahill.

No charge for my free advice. Keep up the good work gang!

[Robert A Cook PE]

One other point, and it may not ever be actually expressed this way in the open, but I believe almost every liberal firmly believes that "It doesn't matter what Kerry says during the campaign, we KNOW he is an extremist liberal and is lying (right now) so we can get elected (and protect abortion) and "raise out stature (subordinate America) in the UN."

Therefore we will vote for Kerry BECAUSE we can trust him to lie (now) but do what is "right" later.

Clark, however, is an unknown. A "real" military officer with (perhaps some remaining semblance) of honor and duty.

Clark might not be lying during the campaign, and might actually do what he says he going to do...